210 FLORAL EMBLEMS. 



MELANCHOLY OR FORSAKEN LOVER. 



WEEPING WILLOW. Salix babylonica. 



" Thus o'er our streams do eastern willows lean 

 In pensive guise ; whose grief-inspiring shade, 

 Love has to melancholy sacred made." 



Delille. 



Few emblems have been more celebrated 

 by the poets than this of the forsaken lovers. 



" To the brook and the willow that heard him complain, 



Ah, willow ! willow ! 



Poor Colin went weeping and told them his pain." 



Rowe. 



" I offered him my company to a willow tree, to make 

 him a garland, as being forsaken ; to bind him up a rod, 

 as being worthy to be whipt." Shakspeare. 



' In love the sad forsaken wight 

 The willow garland weareth." 



Dray ton. 



